Corpus: An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge by Monica J. Casper

Corpus begins with the argument that conventional disciplines are not able to totally understand the physique and embodiment and asserts that serious examine of those issues urgently calls for interdisciplinary methods. The collection's thirteen formerly unpublished essays grapple with where of our bodies in a number twenty-first century wisdom practices, together with trauma, surveillance, getting older, fats, foodstuff, feminist technoscience, dying, biopolitics, and race, between others. The book's projected viewers comprises lecturers and students of our bodies and embodiment, interdisciplinary students and practitioners, and students drawn to the any of the substantial content material coated within the booklet. the gathering should be of curiosity to an individual studying or writing within the parts of: cultural stories; queer, gender and sexuality reviews; physique and tool; biopolitics; intersectional techniques to the physique; anthropology of the physique; sociology of the physique; embodiment and house; electronic our bodies; anthropology of data creation; well-being, affliction, and drugs stories; technology, wisdom, and know-how reviews; and philosophy and social theory.

A historian hoping to reconstruct the social global of all-black cities or the segregated black sections of alternative cities within the South reveals purely scant lines in their lifestyles. during this booklet Tiffany Ruby Patterson makes use of the ethnographic and literary paintings of Zora Neale Hurston to enhance the few reputable records, newspaper bills, and kin files that pertain to those areas hidden from historical past.

Starting within the overdue Sixties, women's stories students labored to introduce classes at the background, literature, and philosophies of girls. whereas those preliminary efforts have been particularly normal, women's experiences courses have began to provide expanding quantities of recognition to the certain matters of girls of colour.

This examine of medieval girls as postcolonial writers defines the literary options of subversion through which they approved their alterity in the dominant culture. To dismantle a colonizing tradition, they made public the personal female area allotted by way of gender distinction: they built 'unhomely' areas.

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Fortunately for my project, there is a long history of understanding reproduction as a process of aggregate living being. “Reproduction” as a term that applies to biology emerged in the eighteenth century, amid the revolutionary installation of liberal politics that enshrined individuality and private property during the dawn of industrial capitalism. Reproduction has been simultaneously a term that describes the maintenance of species being and a term that describes the maintenance of the relations that constitute Distributed Reproduction 27 capital accumulation.